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The modern feeding frenzy

Mr Saladino has an 18-year-old backpacker's willingness to light out for remote destinations far from the usual food-writer feeding troughs

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Peter Wells | NYT
EATING TO EXTINCTION: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Author: Dan Saladino
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 
Price: $30
Pages: 464

Ach-ech-ech-ech! The birdcall clacks through the canopy in the Tanzanian bush not far from Lake Eyasi. Down below, Sigwazi, one of the thousand or so members of the Hadza tribe, hears it and calls back. Both bird and man understand the message and soon they are off on a treasure hunt, by foot and by wing, that ends when the bird hovers over a nest of African honeybees high in the branches of a baobab tree.

Sigwazi nimbly climbs the